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I win again......she loves to quote me.....
Let's be fair Andy if it was left to you you wouldn't have done nearly as well as you have done. It's got duck all to do with you and everything to do with the real grafters behind the scenes, because all you do us have holidays and gurn into the screen. It's not a win for you it's a win for them.
Perhaps you should confess that you actually like to come over here and read about yourself......hell I'm helping you to make your content. You couldn't do it without me.
Let's be fair Andy if it was left to you you wouldn't have done nearly as well as you have done. It's got duck all to do with you and everything to do with the real grafters behind the scenes, because all you do us have holidays and gurn into the screen. It's not a win for you it's a win for them.
Perhaps you should confess that you actually like to come over here and read about yourself......hell I'm helping you to make your content. You couldn't do it without me.
I had to unfollow her.this morning. I watched her from the beginning of 2021 and enjoyed her content and her story for a long time.
I just find her so inauthentic these days, there's something not ringing true for me. I know instagram is all for show but her content is so performative, even when she's sad and doing 'the struggle is real' posts. Call it ADAD, call it a busy brain, it seems like she is constantly distracting and on the run from herself.
Anyway, good luck to her and her business but I just would prefer to not have her on my timeline anymore.
I just find her so inauthentic these days, there's something not ringing true for me. I know instagram is all for show but her content is so performative, even when she's sad and doing 'the struggle is real' posts. Call it ADAD, call it a busy brain, it seems like she is constantly distracting and on the run from herself.
Anyway, good luck to her and her business but I just would prefer to not have her on my timeline anymore.
stardust21
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I can’t believe I’ve only just discovered Andi has a Tattle thread.
I use to love her, but the final straw for me was when she tried to garner sympathy for breaking the security rules at Chelsea. I mean what the fuck? Why does she think having Instagram followers gives her a free pass to do whatever she likes?
She uses crying and being upset to trick people into feeling sorry for her so they buy stuff. It’s a marketing technique that I’m really not a fan of. I don’t like the idea of using peoples good nature in this way.
I use to love her, but the final straw for me was when she tried to garner sympathy for breaking the security rules at Chelsea. I mean what the fuck? Why does she think having Instagram followers gives her a free pass to do whatever she likes?
She uses crying and being upset to trick people into feeling sorry for her so they buy stuff. It’s a marketing technique that I’m really not a fan of. I don’t like the idea of using peoples good nature in this way.
AutumnDays
Chatty Member
Imagine trying to grow a business and then saying this morning she was going to have to get Sibley’s to sell her flowers for her on Sunday at the flower market because she wasn’t going to spend her son’s birthday at a flower market. She‘s trying to keep a business afloat, she could have had the party after school today and pulled out all the shops to get the flowers to market and sold or arranged someone to run her stall.
Tracemitray
New member
It cracked me up in the crying video when she said they kept her on hold for FIVE MINUTES. How dare they 
if she said 5 hours I’d have sympathy!
if she said 5 hours I’d have sympathy!teaandtoast8
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Why does she think people want to buy products or services from someone who clearly doesn’t even know how to take care of them?!
Alicolacreme
Active member
I wonder if she isn’t putting her foot in it further with being so moody about it on socials? Like, if she had taken it graciously and just put a blanket statement out that said what she did and then didn’t give people the option to start throwing words around like ‘boycott’ and ‘snobs’ etc, then the RHS may have been inclined to let her back. Maybe that’s why Malvern have done what they have. By making another video and having her cult in uproar she may be alienating herself further from future shows and from making connections, word spreads on what people are like to work with, I would imagine that the RHS would want to distance themselves.
It’s all very well her making her own annual flower show (watch this space, I can feel a lip-synced reel coming on) but it’s not going to further her business if she’s the one running it.
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It’s all very well her making her own annual flower show (watch this space, I can feel a lip-synced reel coming on) but it’s not going to further her business if she’s the one running it.
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Oh I literally just said I could feel this coming!
I can't believe there's a thread on her but it's so interesting to read all the posts.
I've been watching her since almost the beginning and I used to love her and was so invested in how the business was progressing. But as everyone has previously mentioned, the whole shtick is wearing thin, Constantly going from catastrophe to 'smashing it' repeatedly is getting old. I think I'd be more interested if she just showed the day to day nuances rather than 'IT'S AMAZING' or 'IT'S A DISASTER' with no in-between.
I do wonder how the cushions and coasters went, I didn't fancy them much personally.
I've been watching her since almost the beginning and I used to love her and was so invested in how the business was progressing. But as everyone has previously mentioned, the whole shtick is wearing thin, Constantly going from catastrophe to 'smashing it' repeatedly is getting old. I think I'd be more interested if she just showed the day to day nuances rather than 'IT'S AMAZING' or 'IT'S A DISASTER' with no in-between.
I do wonder how the cushions and coasters went, I didn't fancy them much personally.
Yellowsubmarine
New member
My prediction is that she will decide the Dahlia Fields are too much work for the income they bring in - so I wouldn’t be surprised if she decides to close the fields after this season is finished and instead go full pelt on building the Dahlia Beach brand in garden centres and online. She knows that marketing is her main strength and not the actual growing or breeding of new strains of Dahlias. Soon customers will cotton on that they can buy better quality tubers for half the price elsewhere.
It’s one thing to love growing flowers in your garden but a completely different thing to scale up and grow commercially for a business.
All the lip syncing to songs and inspirational “failing is an opportunity to learn” cheesy quotes don’t pay the bills. At some point she’s going to have to take a long, hard, cold look at the realities and decide whether this is really giving her the income and work life balance she says she wants.
It’s one thing to love growing flowers in your garden but a completely different thing to scale up and grow commercially for a business.
All the lip syncing to songs and inspirational “failing is an opportunity to learn” cheesy quotes don’t pay the bills. At some point she’s going to have to take a long, hard, cold look at the realities and decide whether this is really giving her the income and work life balance she says she wants.
AutumnDays
Chatty Member
I think she’ll have lots requesting refunds if bookings from 20th august were moved to September 10th and then put off to end September.
It appears the Farm’s infrastructure wasn’t ready to open last weekend, never mind the lack of flowers. Notice there was no ‘dahlia installation’ either.
Her mistake was planting the dahlias far too late, not starting them off in pots first, allowing the dahlias to become choked with weeds and pinched them out far too late -at that stage she shouldn’t have pinched out at all. We all know the summer has been awful weather-wise and while my own dahlias haven’t been abundant as other years, and some varieties slow to flower, I’ve been cutting dahlias since mid July.
It appears the Farm’s infrastructure wasn’t ready to open last weekend, never mind the lack of flowers. Notice there was no ‘dahlia installation’ either.
Her mistake was planting the dahlias far too late, not starting them off in pots first, allowing the dahlias to become choked with weeds and pinched them out far too late -at that stage she shouldn’t have pinched out at all. We all know the summer has been awful weather-wise and while my own dahlias haven’t been abundant as other years, and some varieties slow to flower, I’ve been cutting dahlias since mid July.
Notenoughgin
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What the actual fuck?? Dancing in the dahlias?? Mental. Surely people will not be parting with £25 a pop for this crazy woman’s half brained idea??
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whatanabsolutewholloper
Chatty Member
She thinks she’s above the rules and is now blacklisted. Serves her right.
whatanabsolutewholloper
Chatty Member
There was no need to say anything at all really, she just wouldn’t have been at the RHS shows and that would have been that. She just craves attention and this latest one is her building on her ‘I’m so real and authentic, I’m a disrupter’ persona. In my opinion she is embarrassing, unprofessional, entitled and a chancer.
bustedpigeon
Active member
I don’t understand the need to make reels of her looking sad “oh poor me people are being mean” she’s the first to jump on socials and complain if she gets poor service from somewhere!
The irony is that she thinks she is such an expert. She even posted a video giving advice about how to protect dahlias from frost.
Perhaps if she spent less time filming other people doing the work, and silly videos and just cracked on and got on with being a flower farmer, then things might be a bit more successful. It’s clear that she is nearly there but she just takes on too much, makes her slaves do the hard graft and then films herself crying when it goes a bit wrong. It’s the same routine every year. Manic manic manic, cry for sympathy. Manic manic manic, cry for sympathy. Next will be the “I’ve got adhd” excuses. It’s tiresome.
Perhaps if she spent less time filming other people doing the work, and silly videos and just cracked on and got on with being a flower farmer, then things might be a bit more successful. It’s clear that she is nearly there but she just takes on too much, makes her slaves do the hard graft and then films herself crying when it goes a bit wrong. It’s the same routine every year. Manic manic manic, cry for sympathy. Manic manic manic, cry for sympathy. Next will be the “I’ve got adhd” excuses. It’s tiresome.
FlowersintheRain
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Bloody hell! They haven’t stolen her money as she is claiming, her account is frozen because it’s flagged for money laundering - so something weird is clearly going on behind the scenes. She will get it back when she can prove she is legitimate. And she has had months to sort it out, was given notice they were closing her account. Why didn’t she apply for a new one or you know, do something other than jumping and lip synching? If I was in her position I would be far too stressed to be miming to a song outside the bank, I’d be in full on panic mode. I don’t get her behaviour at all
Starry_eyed_pie
Chatty Member
The text didn't pick up his first word, but she's taking about letting people down and about to cry, and he says 'don't do that on here'.. has he not seen any of her SM?! That's literally her MO!!! Over promise, under deliver, cry for sympathy online.Her husband looked frustrated with her at the end of that video
I wonder if she made him think she knew more then she does and that's why he gave up his job to help out with the business.
I love that she talks about how hard she's working when she basically films other people working hard! Reminds me of Bridget Jones "just fanning about with press releases"!
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Well what do ya know.......the random tat hasn't sold. No shit. Oh and most that was sold was sold when she wasn't there.....speaks volumes I'd say, take the hint Andi and leave capable people to it instead of inserting your chaos at every opportunity. Now she's begging the followers to buy something. Wait for the weekly poor me post.
Slip slip knit
Chatty Member
I can’t remember which flower show she did in 21 where one of the ladies designed and made her an amazing display and dahlia beach one an award and she posted a video saying ‘I did it I did it’ very passionately and I thought you didn’t bloody defo it that woman did and I’d be annoyed if I was her! Hopefully she got some thanks behind the scenes! Haven’t seen or heard much from Eve recently hope she’s ok!